Valkey Has a Free Redis Fork Maintained by the Linux Foundation

Valkey is an open-source fork of Redis, maintained by the Linux Foundation. After Redis changed its license, Valkey continues the BSD-3 open-source tradition.

What You Get for Free

• Full Redis compatibility — drop-in replacement
• BSD-3 license — truly open source
• Linux Foundation — backed by AWS, Google, Oracle
• All Redis features — strings, lists, sets, hashes, streams
• Clustering — built-in horizontal scaling
• Pub/Sub — real-time messaging
• Lua scripting — server-side logic

Quick Start

docker run -p 6379:6379 valkey/valkey

Use Like Redis

valkey-cli
> SET user:1 '{"name":"Alice"}'
> GET user:1
> HSET session:abc user_id 1 expires 3600
> EXPIRE session:abc 3600

Migration from Redis

Valkey is a drop-in replacement. Just:

1. Replace redis-server with valkey-server
2. Replace redis-cli with valkey-cli
3. No code changes needed

Valkey vs Redis

Feature	Valkey	Redis
License	BSD-3 (open)	SSPL (restrictive)
Maintainer	Linux Foundation	Redis Ltd
Compatible	100%	Baseline

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